Sentences with phrase «how cells process»

What could medicine look like someday if, instead of focusing primarily on the organ affected by a disease — neurologists examining brain diseases, pulmonologists focusing on lung diseases — our system was centered on how cells process energy?

«We know that the pathway is important for normal cells to carry their activities as it is involved in regulating metabolism, that is, how cells process nutrients to obtain energy and how cells use energy to grow.

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Conversely, if God is seen primarily as the expressed psychicalization in process of a multiplicity of event - cells, how can there be anything more than just that: psychicalized event - cells?

The second question has in fact two facets: (a) how does it arise in the development of the individual organism during the process of growth from the moment of fertilization of the egg; and (b) how does the egg itself come to get that way — that is to say, how can we conceive of evolution as having «designed» the cell?

You will see a pictorial expression of fertilization processes; how the sperm cell swims to an ovary and clings to it, then within some weeks a fetus looking like a tadpole is formed.

It goes beyond the structure of life and gets to biological processes, including how cells or molecules move, how cells respond to their environment or neighbors, and how the brain works or how injuries heal, he says.

Joe W. Ramos, PhD, deputy director of the UH Cancer Center and collaborators focused on investigating how these oncogenes and related signals lead to dysregulation of normal processes within the cell and activate highly mobile and invasive cancer cell behavior.

Therefore, it is essential that we learn how specific types of chemical modifications normally regulate RNA function in our cells, in order to understand how dysregulation of this process contributes to human disease, says Cristian Bellodi.

By measuring how the light has changed once it emerges through the other side of the slide, the researchers can detect and monitor processes occurring on the sensor surface, such as cell division.

However, it remains unclear how these different stem cells populations balance proliferation, differentiation and migration during the healing process.

To investigate how the egg cell manages to rid itself of such a resilient structure, Joana Pinto, a PhD student in the Lénárt lab, developed fluorescent tags for mother and daughter centrioles in a starfish egg cell and recorded the entire process of eliminating them.

Researchers then tested cell cultures and mouse models by using a gene editing process called CRISPR - Cas9 to demonstrate how the presence or absence of myomaker and myomerger — both individually and in unison — affect cell fusion and muscle formation.

Over the past 15 years, the GFP gene has enabled scientists to watch a plethora of previously murky biological processes in action: how nerve cells develop in the brain, how insulin - producing beta cells form in the pancreas of an embryo, how proteins are transported within cells, and how cancer cells metastasize through the body.

One area of research within mechanobiology, the study of how physical forces influence biological processes, is on the interplay between cells and their environment and how it impacts their ability to grow and spread.

Knowing how these cells mature during development might lead to a better grasp of just how to replicate that process in the adult brain, which could eventually pave the way to strategies that rejuvenate aging circuits, Donato said.

This study provides a breakthrough in our understanding of how information processed in the amygdala — one cell at a time — maintains the delicate balance between whether one should or should not be afraid.

«Knowing how cells respond to mechanical cues in the living embryo and how they physically sculpt tissues and organs in the 3D space will transform the way we think about developmental processes,» said Otger Campàs, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB and senior author on the paper that reports this novel technique in Nature Methods.

Meanwhile, recent human studies indicate that aging is associated with an increase in somatic mutations in the hematopoietic system, which gives rise to blood cells; these mutations provide a competitive growth advantage to the mutant hematopoietic cells, allowing for their clonal expansion — a process that has been shown to be associated with a greater incidence of atherosclerosis, though specifically how remains unclear.

While these results suggest that boosting autophagy in the gut is generally beneficial, Hansen cautions that further research is needed: «Before we can consider regulating autophagy to manage disease, we need to learn a lot more about how the process works both in a single cell as well as in the whole organism.»

«With this discovery in our hands, we'd now like to try to find out which additional immune - cell properties cancer cells have and study how they affect the metastatic process,» says Dr Fuxe.

«We want to start looking system by system to see how widely acting this process is on different types of cells,» he says.

«Tropical trees, compared those in temperate forests, have three times as many living cells surrounding the xylem that can facilitate these processes, which are not observed by the typical experiments we conduct to determine how vulnerable a plant is to droughts.»

«This is what we need to find out next, because it could provide some clue as to how we could activate the same process in human cells.»

«It takes about one hour for the virus to complete the process, but questions remain about how the cells control this precision in timing.»

Researchers are using the sea hare model to learn about individual cells function, discover the chemical pathways controlling various brain activities and to study how memories are processed and stored.

It's not that they're trying to block the cells from transforming into iPSCs, but they've simply never been exposed to this process before and don't know how to react.»

In their report published in Science Immunology they describe how expression of a specific molecule — complement C5a — is required to cause the immune cells called neutrophils to adhere to joint surfaces and migrate into the joint, a process known to set off the inflammatory cascade.

And it's essential to understand how neurobiological processing conducted by molecules and cells and electrical signaling gets translated into behaviors, from simple bodily movements to complex social interactions.

«In order to simulate the oil recovery process we divide the reservoir up into small segments or cells and describe how the oil migrates from cell to cell.

Despite all they have learned in the past century, neuroscientists have made little headway in figuring out exactly how brain cells process information.

But it is never clear by what process these cells are formed or how similar they are to the natural versions.

A process that wipes egg and sperm cells clean misses some genes out, explaining how your bad habits may affect the DNA of your children and grandchildren

To understand defective disease process, investigators need to track where and how transcription factors bind to DNA to identify the differences between healthy and diseased cells.

In their efforts to conquer the aging process, researchers are zeroing in on one specific part of the cell: mitochondria, the energy - generating organelles that control our metabolism and, it seems, help regulate how long we live.

Previously it was unknown how this process works, but now scientists at Karolinska Institutet have discovered the importance of particular protein rings encircling the DNA and how these function as the cell's memory.

This process is how dsRNA silences genes in a cell.

mTOR controls a process that determines how large our cells are and how many cells we have.

«But mounting evidence confirming angiotropism and EVMM has revolutionized the knowledge of how cancer spreads through the body to the point that other scientists have confirmed the process in other solid tumor cell types such as pancreatic cancer.»

In contrast, says Kawauchi, the new findings help explain how p53 affects the cytoskeletal processes within the cell that drive invasion.

Scientists produced an artificial chromosome in the lab to investigate how cells renew themselves — a process known as cell division.

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«All the cells looked the same and you had no idea when or how the process occurred.

A new study from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is the first to show precisely how a process in nerve cells called the S - nitrosylation (SNO) reaction — which can be caused by aging, pesticides and pollution — may contribute to Parkinson's disease.

Understanding how cancer cells are able to metastasize — migrate from the primary tumor to distant sites in the body — and developing therapies to inhibit this process are the focus of many laboratories around the country.

The researchers also discovered an essential role for the mechanical properties, i.e. the physical stiffness, of the gel in regulating intestinal stem cell behavior, shedding light on how cells are able to sense, process and respond to physical stimuli.

Understanding this process - which is particularly important when cells are first taking on specialized identities such as nerve cells, muscle, skin, and so on - helps explain how complex organisms can arise from a finite number of genes.

But how the process worked — and even which cells used the method — was unclear.

Further studies showed that very similar genes controlled the process in animal and human cells, and also helped piece together how the genes work together to keep the cell's recycling centers running.

«We wanted to understand how the monarch is processing these different types of information to yield this constant behavior — flying southwest each fall,» said Shlizerman, who is lead author on the team's recent paper in the journal Cell Reports.

At that time, little was known about the molecular biology of development — how what's going on in the development process itself influences what can happen to the evolutionary trajectory of cells and organisms.